Lenik Greenhouse Quotes & Sayings

A man having no freedom cannot be conceived of except as deprived of life. — Leo Tolstoy

Changes made by management today make no improvement. — Peter R. Scholtes

Above all, my dear Lucilius, make this your business: learn how to feel joy. — Seneca.

It was that evening, when my mother abdicated her authority, that marked the beginning, along with the slow death of my grandmother, of the decline of my will and of my health. Everything had been decided at the moment when, unable to bear the idea of waiting until the next day to set my lips on my mother's face, I had made my resolution, jumped out of bed, and gone, in my nightshirt, to stay by the window through which the moonlight came, until I heard M. Swann go. My parents having gone with him, I heard the garden gate open, the bell ring, the gate close again ... — Marcel Proust

Colored lights shone right across the northern sky, leaping and flaring, spreading in rainbow hues from horizon to zenith: blood red to rose pink, saffron yellow to delicate primrose, pale green, aquamarine to darkest indigo. Great veils of color swathed the heavens, rising and falling as light seen through cascading curtains of water. Streamers shot out in great shifting beams as if God had put his thumb across the sun. — Celia Rees

One of the ways over the years that the church has severely weakened corporate prayer is that we let prayer be about the people there, rather than about God. We — Jonathan L Graf

When you appreciate what you have, then you will receive more. When you are in this moment feeling gratitude for this moment you actually up your vibrational signal to attract more things to be grateful for. — Joe Vitale

The significance is hiding in the insignificant. Appreciate everything. — Eckhart Tolle

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories. — Alice Munro

I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier. — Robert Smith

Can't you see? Before you knew the truth, we were happy. What's the god in ferreting out the truth all that time? It's always unpleasant."
"Is it only lies that are Pleasant?"
"Usually. That's why people tell them. To make life bearable. — Penelope Mortimer

Tell me, if you teach someone the alphabet, how can you stop him from reading? When one has tasted the elixir of love, how can she not thirst for it? Once you have seen yourself through your beloved's eyes, you're not the same person any longer. I was blind all this time, and now that my eyes are open, i'm afraid of light. But i don't want to live like a mole. Not anymore. — Elif Shafak

If you could use the Internet somehow to see how a Fiji sailor is doing, rather than having to read a text version of it somewhere a day later, that would be great. — Dennis Miller

The compulsion to work long years in pursuit of some inner vision must be fueled by stubborn fires. — Silvia Tennenbaum